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Karolina Muchova punched her ticket to the Wimbledon final Thursday, knocking out Coco Gauff in a three-set thriller that came down to a dramatic super tiebreaker, six-two, two-six, seven-six. Muchova becomes the fourth Czech woman in the last six years to reach the Wimbledon final, and she looked every bit the part on that grass.
Shifting to the transfer market, Real Madrid are moving fast this summer. The club has already locked in Ibrahima Konate, Denzel Dumfries, Marc Cucurella, and Bernardo Silva, and now reports indicate they have the ability to re-sign a departing defender for fifty million euros. Madrid's front office is not wasting any time reshaping that squad.
And a strange one out of Washington — former Olympic canoe racer David Hearn has pleaded not guilty to charges of deliberately damaging the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Hearn represented Canada at the highest level of his sport, which makes this a jarring headline for the athletics community. The case moves forward.
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